Course Description: Fiber, Justice, and Fashion Financial Innovation & Impact Investing is a movement and a process of fostering change across the textile supply chain (i.e. crops, fibers, and garments) of producers, manufacturers, and retailers towards greater wealth for workers and communities, and protection of the environment. The fashion industry is currently one of the most harmful industries to communities and environment, polluting the water, air, and soil across the world (through over production of fashion, synthetic fibers, agriculture pollution, etc.). The US has tripled their consumption of garments since 1960, resulting in a powerful opportunity to create massive change in how the industry does business.

The following class will introduce the concept of Full Spectrum Capital and how we can use Impact Investing and Financial Innovation Institute, Investor Accelerators aka Impact Investing Giving Circles and Investor Clubs to identify, educate, and activate full spectrum capital to increase the flows of aligned capital into the Fiber and Fashion Supply chain that will increase worker and community ownership while solving our climate crisis.

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Instructor(s): Dr. Stephanie Gripne, Founder and CEO of Impact Finance Center, Visiting Scholar at The Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School, Net Impact’s Innovator in Residence; and Antoinette Klatzky, Executive Director of the Eileen Fisher Leadership Institute.